Unfortunately, these theories eventually made their way into the boardrooms of corporate America in the last decade, resulting in widespread Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandates and the overall abandonment of meritocracy. A new report from the nonprofit group Alliance for Consumers documents how a well-funded segment of the plaintiffs' bar has partnered with left-wing activists to force DEI mandates through litigation. In 2023, Goldman Sachs paid $215 million in Chen-Oster v. Goldman Sachs after a decade of litigation and accepted outside review of its pay and promotion decisions. In the discrimination cases, trial lawyers have weaponized the law to install permanent DEI bureaucracies and race-based hiring practices in major American corporations. They can insist that settlements approved in state court compensate the people actually harmed, rather than erecting DEI governance structures that outlive the dispute.